I really don't blame Colin Baker too much. He had a producer who really didn't want to do the show, but no one wanted to replace him. C.Baker really tried to be different-but he does bear the responsibility of making the doctor too unlikeable.

But the main thing was the head of the BBC was a big throbbing wanker.

You've got the wrong redhead for "overwrought and whiny". I believe you were thinking of this one...

KawaiiNot:Smith sorta comes off like he's trying to copy Tennant but throwing in a pinch of prudish grandma judgement. STILL easier to watch then Eccleston.

As I've said before, Smith hasn't really been given much to work with, since he's been starring in The Amy Pond Show for the last two seasons, and all his character has been tasked to do is FIND AMY HELP AMY LOVE AMY MISS AMY AMY AMY AMY AMY AMY. Now that his stretch on that show is over with, and he's back to starring on Doctor Who, maybe we'll see what his Doctor can really be like.

I'll grant this for Tennant: he brought consistency to inconsistent script-writing. Of course, it was consistently hammy, but it was consistent. Tennant's rage-face was also consistently funny, which probably wasn't appropriate, but there it was.

While overall, I prefer the Smith era, I will grant that the script quality has mostly declined. Smith has yet to get a "Blink" or "Girl in the Fireplace", which goes to show: RTD was a terrible writer, but a great producer. Moffat was a great writer, not so great when he's also producing.

FirstNationalBastard:PC LOAD LETTER: Tennant blows them all away, but that's because he was the best actor and also given the most to work with. I hate 60's and 70's cheesy camp Sci-fi. It just deserves parody. Good stories, still, but the production and execution were really ugh.

FirstNationalBastard:PC LOAD LETTER: Tennant blows them all away, but that's because he was the best actor and also given the most to work with. I hate 60's and 70's cheesy camp Sci-fi. It just deserves parody. Good stories, still, but the production and execution were really ugh.

Smith, IMHO, is far better in Tennant in one big way: he plays the doctor as an old man child alien. He dosent look at a young 19 year old girl and think..I gotta get me a piece of that. Tennant was stuck on romance far too much.

Colin Bakers approach was a lot like Hatnels original run...in the first story, the doctor was a arrogant, mean bastard... willing to murder in cold blood.

I know a lot of people have trouble with the earlier "campy" version of the Doctor Who- but at the time, BBC really didn't have a lot of money nor the reasources to pull off Hollywood style show.

Tom Baker mentioned in the Keys of Time DVD- Star Wars really upped the SFX expectations of the audience...and later shows like Star Trek TNG really made Doctor Who look like crap.

Part of the camp aspect lies in the person playing the doctor-Smith/T. Baker/McCoy/Troughton and the writers...Douglas Adams who were writing Satire.

PC LOAD LETTER:Tennant blows them all away, but that's because he was the best actor and also given the most to work with. I hate 60's and 70's cheesy camp Sci-fi. It just deserves parody. Good stories, still, but the production and execution were really ugh.

Tennant blows them all away, but that's because he was the best actor and also given the most to work with. I hate 60's and 70's cheesy camp Sci-fi. It just deserves parody. Good stories, still, but the production and execution were really ugh.